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#19 Build Self-Efficacy, the Confidence That Leads to Success

Here is how you build confidence. The type of confidence that counts. Confidence equation in two minutes: Background. The Hot Mommas Project women’s leadership research initiative with the partnership of the George Washington School of Business Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence has adapted and tested elements of famed social psychologist Albert Bandura’s self-efficacy principles to arrive at “The Confidence Equation.”  Tests have taken place with women aged 18-55 starting in 2009.… Read More »#19 Build Self-Efficacy, the Confidence That Leads to Success

Canada Celebrates its Hot Mommas

Lydia Fernandes, Country Manager for the Hot Mommas Project, put together this amazing tribute. Thank you Lydia, and thank you to the wonderful, brave, women who lead everyday at work, at home, in your community…in whatever you do and have stepped forward, stepped UP, and taken the time to share your story so that we – and the next generation – may learn. Click to play ABOUT:  Hot Mommas Project… Read More »Canada Celebrates its Hot Mommas

#8 MENTOR: Be a Front Porch Lady Featuring Esther Silver Parker

A dignified, beautiful, African American woman stood at the podium during the Wake Forest Women’s Weekend. All eyes were on Esther Silver-Parker, one of the most senior former executives at Wal-Mart and now president of the Silver-Parker Group. Would she talk about women’s advancement to the C-suite? Would she share her secrets to success? That, she did. And one of them was not at all what we expected.